You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
Otherwise we get off the track and we do not fulfil the historical role which we want to fulfil: to help the masses, the exploited and the oppressed of the world, build a classless society, a world socialist federation. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
On the contrary, history generally confirms that the more conscious and the better you are organized in vanguard organizations, the more constructively you operate in the mass organizations of the working class. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers’ councils, people’s councils, call them what you want, popular committees. Ernest Mandel Read Quote
